SIMON FINN Pass The Distance LP/1970 UK ACID FOLK/S-SW PSYCH/Current 93/Bill Fay

Description: SIMON FINN 'Pass The Distance' LP (Germany, Mayfair Music, Catalogue #MFM 006) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2008 Mayfair Music label LP edition (edition of 500 copies only... and long sold out/out of print) of RARE 1971 Acid Folk/Intense Singer-Songwriter Psych album entitled Pass The Distance by Simon Finn (featuring Paul Burwell and David Toop.) Originally released in 1971 in the UK on the Mushroom label. Will appeal to fans of Bill Fay and, with the intense track "Jerusalem," Current 93 as well. (NOTE: ALL RECORDS ARE PACKED AND SHIPPED IN PROFESSIONAL, SUPERIOR QUALITY RECTANGULAR SHAPED, CORNER PROTECTING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD RECORD MAILERS WITH FILLER PADS. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!) (NOTE: BRAND NEW/NON-FACTORY SEALED ITEM!) (NOTE: LIMITED, LONG SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT VINYL EDITION OF 500 COPIES ONLY!) Finally a first legal reissue of this obscure and fantastic UK acid folk album. The music can be best described as "apocalyptic folk", in the vein of the second Bill Fay LP. Simon Finn’s sole recorded album originally released on the UK Mushroom label in 1970 and withdrawn shortly after its release is as influential as recently rediscovered obscurities such as Comus, The Trees and Jan Dukes de Grey. To name but a few. Personally, Simon Finn’s album is an unique album, be it for its unorthodox musical content, and for its rarity. Just like Bill Fay’s output, “pass the Distance” simply evades any easy categorization. The music is filled with melancholy, doom-laden prophesizing (just like Fay), but on tracks like "Jerusalem" and "Big White Car," Finn enters uncharted waters of an unequalled vocal rage, madness and hysteria in an attempt to avenge deities and unleashing a never before encountered ethereal wrath, all combined with primitive but poignant acoustic backing that were contributed by the young multi-instrumentalist David Toop. Toop and percussionist Paul Burwell were given free reign in order to extrapolate on Finn's songs as a blank slate for experimentation and improvisation. It resulted in a free from constraints, anarchic and nihilistic setting for Simon Finn's songs to take shape unto. Mandolin and harmonium lines that defied and neglected any melodic concerns are all over the place, only attributing to the already apocalyptic atmosphere to hover over the session. Add to that the use or misuse of heavy echo, stereo fading and phasing and you get a totally dislocated sense for structure, song which only alters the tension and greatness of the music that resulted out of it all. Just murderously beautiful and one of the best folk albums to seep out of the UK. Limited one time pressing of only 500 copies and long out of print. "Few albums define a genre as succinctly as Simon Finn's Pass The Distance does for psychedelic folk. Not even landmark recordings by Pearls Before Swine or Skip Spence can stand up to the sheer madness of Finn's sole LP, originally released in 1970. After moving to London in 1967, Finn busked around town for a couple years before entering Camden's Chalk Farm Studios, best known for producing a string of reggae hits. Pass The Distance, however, would become more than a solo-acoustic project. Backed by free-improvisation innovators David Toop and Paul Burwell, Finn's dark, personal songs unravel lysergically over 40 minutes. Toop's sinewy electric guitar and Burwell's broad percussive palette lift up Finn's ardent strumming and snarling vocals, making this one wild ride in catharsis, introspection and raw merriment. As Finn tells journalist Dave Segal in an interview for this vinyl reissue, 'The songs were about alienation and loneliness. 'Jerusalem' came to me in one shot. I wrote it on mescaline and was playing it over and over and one of my flatmates wrote it down.' Pass The Distance remains a 'cult record' in the best sense of the term, possessing a hypnotic beauty all its own." Tracks on this LP are as follows:A1Very Close Friend1:19A2 The Courtyard5:43A3 What A Day3:16A4 Fades (Pass The Distance)3:39A5 Jerusalem6:44B1 Where's Your Master Gone3:13B2 Laughing 'Til Tomorrow2:54B3 Hiawatha4:58B4 Patrice2:49B5 Big White Car5:48 Shipping rates to the following locations at this present time (note: all shipping rates are subject to change.) Shipping in US (including ALASKA & HAWAII), PUERTO RICO (MEDIA MAIL) is $6.98. Shipping to CANADA (AIRMAIL) is $19.98. Shipping to MEXICO (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. Shipping to UK, EUROPE, RUSSIA, ASIA, GREECE, ISRAEL, TURKEY, CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS, ETC. (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. Shipping to BRAZIL, CHILE, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, PARAGUAY, BOLIVIA, PERU, ECUADOR, COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, GUYANA, SURINAME, FRENCH GUIANA (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. 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